A product of a legislative body, a statute.
A display of behaviour.
A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
A division of a theatrical performance.
Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
Any organized activity.
A performer or performers in a show.
A formal or official record of something done.
The process of doing something.
A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
Something done, a deed.
Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
To perform a theatrical role.
To play (a role).
To convey an appearance of being.
To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
To feign.
To do something.
To have an effect (on).
To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
Common law, as contrasted with equity.
Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
To enforce the law.
To subject to legal restrictions.